Frankfort High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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lll l ,M lu-1 In ll' l Q XJ Qui! 'mi We lvl llll N W glefe- 1 'I K l l,f41 1. Q3 tk l 'WN 'lil l 5 l l I I -llll .pq G45 'l ll ill: llli Q1 The Old F. H. S. Building On the night of February 27th, a fire of unknown origin completely destroyed the Frankfort High School building, and all of the contents of the building except the records in the principal's office, which were saved by the quick wits of some of the students and teachers. The building had just become thirty years of age, having been built in 1892, and its loss, quite aside from the rough estimate of between S250,000 and S300,000, means more from a sentimental standpoint because it has housed all the graduating classes during this period of time. Its associations now can hardly be more than memories, and w'hen a new type of the conventional factory type is erected, the alumni, after half a dozen years, will hardly dare talk about the building because outsiders and the students will take them to be old settlers in the community. It would be wise here to correct some erroneous impressions as to the real origin of the fire. Many comic rumors were spread which would have been ridiculous had not certain individuals accepted them at face value and begun seriously to circulate them. One was that a kerosene in- cubator Was being operated in the agriculture laboratory. This was a false report, as the department has none. Another was that an experiment had been set up and left going over night in the agriculture rooms, the chemicals suddenly took a notion to explode, thus causing the holocaust. As a matter of fact, Mr. Lowe, instructor in agriculture, says that all the chemicals stored in his department were a small bottle of wood alcohol, of formaldehyde, and of sulphuric acid. A third theory, more plausible, was that there was escaping gas which in some manner became ignited. A fourth theory was that of defective electric Wiring in that corner of the agriculture room. A fifth theory, most plausible of all, was that the fire was of incendiary origin. There are people in the World who would do such a thing. The old stone pile was built in 1892, when Mr. D. A. Coulter was pres- ident of the school board. It was unique architecturally among the high school buildings of the state. It was built by Pierce 8a Morgan contrac- tors The high school edifice was of a Norman feudal type of architecture with grim stone walls which a gigantic conflagration could not entirely shake To several students the fire suggested so they said the burning of the Norman castle of Torquilstone so vividly described in Scott s Ivan- hoe. The unfortunate features of the situation were that the building had wooden stairways and balustrades oil-soaked floors wooden rafters and considerable materials which made ideal fuel such as papers books and chemicals. It is generally believed that if the firemen had entered the building and poured the stream from the hose over the interior instead of fighting it exclusively from the exterior that it could have been almost wholly saved. The debris in the building smouldered for several days after the fire SEVEN v? lrsjj be 4- l l l M Qi ,il Ill' l l ,l,l., QW.. .x-, .I w. CV' . Al elf' Q Ill E Z l ll l l . l 7 ' , ' .ll.. 9 ' 7 3 . r cc 77 . lv f . ll. - - 1 9 , l l l ll I l l ll rl will yr 3 sl aff 1 I9 fx- 1 . we .f .l l T , W - he .T . 1 ' F fl Q ' ' 5 W-lll-fl' 'l'1i-'i'Vf-c- l l

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